As the Module Making guide says (and the utility name implies), xml2gbs is for GenBook modules. You're probably generating a valid GenBook, but your .conf file is trying to access a Bible, with effect being that it cannot find it.
The vaguely-named osis2mod is what you'll need to convert OSIS documents into Sword Bibles. --Chris On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Meneely wrote: > Greetings, > > I've tried this several times (on and off!) over several months, and have yet > to produce a module which works. I've got the "Module Making" guide printed > in front of me, I've tried to make things as simple as possible, and I'm > failing. > > I'm trying to convert OSIS into a text module. After I install and start > Sword (Windows, although all my utilities are run in RH9) I see a tab for my > trial version, but there's no text in it. > > For today's try I used the Sample OSIS Document from page 4 of the "Getting > Started with OSIS" guide (pasted in below) and a simple conf file (also > pasted in below). On my Red Hat box I ran xml2gbs -f0 osisdemo.xml osisdemo > I copied my osisdemo.conf file to the same mods.d folder used by pre-created > modules and the produce of xml2gbs (osisdemo.bdt, dat, and idx) to > modules\texts\rawtext\osisdemo. > > Sword shows me a blank for 1 John 1. > > Help, anyone? > > Thanks, > Tim > My osisdemo.conf file: > [OSISDemo] > DataPath=./modules/texts/rawtext/osisdemo/ > ModDrv=RawText > SourceType=OSIS > Version=1.0 > History_1.0=first attempt > Category=Sample texts > Lang=en > Encoding=UTF-8 > Description=TKM OSIS Attempt > About=This is an attempt to import something, anything, into Sword > LCSH=Bible. English. > DistributionLicense=Public Domain > TextSource=TKMeneely > > My osisdemo.xml file: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <osis xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation > ="http://www.bibletechnologies.net/osisCore.1.1.1.xsd";> > <osisText osisIDWork="CEV" osisRefWork="Bible" lang="en"> > <header> > <work osisWork="CEV"> > <title>Contemporary English Version</title> > <identifier type="ISBN">1585160555</identifier> > <rights type="copyright">Copyright 1995, 2003 > American Bible Society</rights> > <refSystem>Bible</refSystem> > <scope osisRef="John.1.1"/> > </work> > <work osisWork="Bible"> > <refSystem>Bible</refSystem> > </work> > </header> > <div type="book" osisID="John"> > <title>John</title> > <chapter osisID="John.1"> > <title>Chapter 1</title> > <v osisID="John.1.1">In the beginning was the > one who is called the Word. The Word was with > God and was truly God.</v> > </chapter> > </div> > </osisText> > </osis> > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
